NEW: 'I think it was wrong,' Sen. Alexander tells MeetThePress, but 'I don't think it's the kind of inappropriate action that the framers would expect the Senate to substitute its judgment for the people in picking a president.”
, including acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security adviser John Bolton.
But ultimately, just two Republicans voted to support hearing from witnesses, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and Maine Sen. Susan Collins, leaving Democrats two votes short. When asked on “Meet the Press” why he didn’t support a vote to hear from more witnesses, Alexander said he made the decision because he already believed that the president did what he was accused of.
“If you have eight witnesses who say someone left the scene of an accident, why do you need nine? I mean, the question for me was: Do I need more evidence to conclude that the president did what he did? And I concluded no,” he said. “He delayed the military and other assistance to Ukraine in order to encourage that investigation,” into Biden.
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